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Randall Bass

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Randall (Randy) Bass is an American professor of English and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown University.[1] He is a prominent figure in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and digital pedagogy.[2]

Education and career

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Bass serves as the Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown.[3] He has been a featured fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and served as a Consulting Scholar for the foundation from 2003 to 2009.[4]

In 1999, he was awarded the EDUCAUSE Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Undergraduate Education.[5]

Selected works

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  • Border Texts: Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) ISBN 978-0-395-67728-5
  • Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) ISBN 978-0-618-23497-4
  • "The Middle of Open Spaces" in Opening Up Education (MIT Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0-262-03371-8
  • "Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education" (2012) in EDUCAUSE Review.[6]
  • "What's the Problem Now?" (2020) in To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.[7]

References

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  1. "Faculty Profile: Randall Bass". Georgetown University. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
  2. Young, Jeffrey R. (November 20, 2016). "How One University Is Rethinking the 'Cradle to Grave' Education". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  3. "CNDLS People". Georgetown University. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
  4. "Balancing Acts: Designing Careers Around the Scholarship of Teaching". Carnegie Foundation. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
  5. "Professor Randy Bass". Georgetown University American Studies Program. Retrieved January 21, 2026.
  6. Bass, Randall (2012). "Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education". EDUCAUSE Review. 47 (2).
  7. Bass, Randall (2020). "What's the Problem Now?". To Improve the Academy. 39 (1). doi:10.3998/tia.17063888.0039.102. hdl:2027/spo.17063888.0039.102.
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